Alumni urged to build on goodwill
More than three-quarters of international students are so positive about their experiences of British undergraduate life that they would recommend their institution to family and friends - but a...
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Scots lack self-criticism
Scotland's higher education institutions are failing to be sufficiently self-critical when assessing their teaching quality, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has warned. In its second...
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Wessex family gets together
Southampton is considering forming a regional university with its four accredited colleges based on the multi-campus model common in the United States. The project, already being referred to as the...
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Health first on Chinese life menu
Running a Chinese restaurant is very, very good for you. According to data from the 1991 census, United Kingdom Chinese are a third less likely to suffer illness and almost 50 per cent less likely to...
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Delorian figure rises on Italy's left
Ex-academic Romano Prodi is set to be one of the key figures in the realignment of Italian politics, says a British academic specialist. Mark Donovan, lecturer in politics at the University of Wales...
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Tuition fees make their mark
The collapse of eastern Europe has shown state-run industry to be a failure, is it the same for state-run universities? THES looks at the competition. The private University of Witten-Herdecke is a...
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Benefits of a loan system
The Government's decision to tighten the rules which allow people to study while drawing benefits is revealing. Further education colleges, like universities, are under-funded. Students have too...
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Entry without conditions
Kenneth Edwards outlines the CVCP's views on reform of the admission system. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals last week issued its submission to the Department for Education's review...
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Council explores new markets overseas
The Institute of International Education in New York points out that despite record numbers of overseas students admitted to United States colleges the rate of increase there is slowing down (THES,...
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Clearing up an entry muddle
The change of the system of post-qualification entry (THES, February 3) that is being suggested comes not before time. Entry to higher education is, at best, an anxious time for candidates and those...
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Race quotas become `hot-button' issue
An attempt to ban the use of race or sex as a criterion for preferential treatment in California signals further the rightward political shift in the United States. Two unknown academics, both white...
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Quality with equality
The approaching anniversary of South Africa's founding democratic election offers a chance to assess the dividends for higher education. Apart from sharing the nation's relief at having broken the...
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Don's Diary
Thursday. This is it - the day I submit my thesis after four years of (mostly) hard work. Spend the morning investigating "how animals think". Today's subjects are Ramblie, a Jersey x South Devon...
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The rational anthem
What makes people buy expensive freshly squeezed orange juice at Marks & Spencer? David Walker asks if the idea of rational choice - that people behave consistently selfishly - has passed its...
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Small bundles of convenience
Carole Ulanowsky is outraged at the way we package children to fit in with our lives. Increasingly, from careers to cross-channel ferries, children are slotted into arrangements put together for...